Released 14th April 2008

Recorded Dork Studios, California, USA

Elliot Minor is the self-titled album.

History

The band has released 5 singles before this album's release, Parallel Worlds, Jessica, The White One Is Evil and Still Figuring Out, with Parallel Worlds being re-released a week before the album, on April 7th.

The album release date had been pushed back many times throughout the course of 2007, however guitarist Alex Davies confirmed on a BBC Radio 1 interview that the album would be released on the 21st April 2008. This has since been revised, and the album was released on April 14th.

Several promotion copies were leaked onto eBay, however were swiftly removed. Demos for all of the tracks have been available for sometime on various torrent websites, and several have also been available on the bands myspace. The track listing has been confirmed by a number of sources since the promotion copy leaked onto eBay.

More recently the official site offered the first 500 albums signed by the band.

The album was released On 14th April at 1:20am on iTunes, which was available for pre-order a week prior to the albums release date. The album went on sale in stores and many other music online download services the same day.

Upon release, the album managed to reach #6 within the 1st week.

Personnel

*Neal Avron - mixing
*Jim Wirt - production
*Alex Davies - vocals, guitar, strings, production, song writer
*Ed Minton - guitar, vocals
*Dan Hetherton - drums, vocals
*Ali Paul - keyboard, synthesizer
*Teddy Hetherton - bass guitar

Track listing

*1. "Time After Time" - 3:55
*2. "Parallel Worlds" - 3:42
*3. "The White One Is Evil" - 4:29
*4. "The Liar Is You" - 3:58
*5. "Lucky Star" - 3:01
*6. "Jessica" - 3:12
*7. "The Broken Minor" - 5:46
*8. "Still Figuring Out" - 3:29
*9. "Silently" - 5:13
*10. "Running Away" - 3:22
*11. "Last Call to New York City" - 6:06

If consumers were to pre-order from 7 Digital, they would receive 2 extra tracks: the band giving a track-by-track commentary on the record, and another 17-minute interview. Also, if pre-ordered from iTunes, users would be able to receive acoustic recordings of Parallel Worlds, Jessica, Lucky Star and The Liar Is You.